Ruina: Imagen poética en Federico García Lorca

Abstract

One striking aesthetic resource apparent through the literary work of Federico Garcia Lorca is the theme of ruin. In Impresiones y paisajes (1918), the poet's first published work, it manifests itself as the image of destruction: herbs, abandoned structures, broken arches, blood, desolate streets, among others. The evolution of these aesthetic images from a romantic perspective remain on his later work, as is the case of the play El público and Poeta en Nueva York. One purpose of this paper is to establish relationships between these texts.